far是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. /ad. 远， 久远， 遥远ad. 到…程度， …得多，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Oh, there's no need to send so far to find out that," said John Mangles.
-- This man was endowed in an eminent degree, not only with ordinary animal courage, that physical bravery of the battle-field, which is solely due to muscular energy, but he had what is far nobler—moral courage, firmness of soul.
-- He looked far from that.
-- He paced restlessly up and down; sometimes stopping to examine the sails, or gaze inquiringly over the wide ocean, at the far horizon.
-- Besides, it is completely going down as far as wine growing is concerned.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I think,' said I, following as far as I could the methods of my companion, 'that Dr. Mortimer is a successful, elder-ly medical man, well-esteemed since those who know him give him this mark of their appreciation.'
-- I was proud, too, to think that I had so far mastered his sys-tem as to apply it in a way which earned his approval.
-- Is it, then, stretching our inference too far to say that the presentation was on the occasion of the change?'
-- 'Come, come, we are not so far wrong, after all,' said Hol- mes.
-- He then proceeded down the Alley, and it was at the far end of it that his body was discovered.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had married young, while still a lieutenant, his wife being a girl of about his own age, who possessed neither beauty nor education, and who brought him no more than fifty souls of landed property, which little estate served, however, as a nest-egg for far more important accumulations.
-- I am telling you all this in order to ease your mind, for I see you are still far from comfortable on my account.
-- A murder by sentence is far more dreadful than a murder committed by a criminal.
-- Gania stood at his table in the far corner of the room, turning over papers.
-- He seemed to be still far from well.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She shall grow old in my house at Argos far from her own home, busying herself with her loom and visiting my couch; so go, and do not provoke me or it shall be the worse for you.'
-- And Achilles answered, 'Fear not, but speak as it is borne in upon you from heaven, for by Apollo, Calchas, to whom you pray, and whose oracles you reveal to us, not a Dan-aan at our ships shall lay his hand upon you, while I yet live to look upon the face of the earth no, not though you name Agamemnon himself, who is by far the foremost of the Achaeans.'
-- When the sharing comes, your share is far the largest, and I, forsooth, must go back to my ships, take what I can get and be thankful, when my labour of fighting is done.
-- If the Olympian Thunderer wants to hurl us all from our seats, he can do so, for he is far the strongest, so give him fair words, and he will then soon be in a good humour with us.'
-- But Juno said to Minerva, 'Alas, daughter of aegis-bearing Jove, unweariable, shall the Ar-gives fly home to their own land over the broad sea, and leave Priam and the Trojans the glory of still keeping Hel-en, for whose sake so many of the Achaeans have died at Troy, far from their homes?
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And what was stranger, even to his heavy intelligence, on the bedroom chair and along the rail of the bed were scattered the garments, the only garments so far as he knew, and the bandages of their guest.
-- At last he rapped, opened the door, and got as far as, "Excuse me " "Go to the devil!"
-- "I didn't try to give you the slip," said Marvel, in a voice that was not far remote from tears.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Far from giving up the chase, this only spurred them on.
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